Bruce Logan, the Kappe professor of environmental engineering at Penn State, is one of 12 scientists to receive a Global Research Partnership (GRP) Investigator award from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Logan will receive up to

Philip LoGrasso, associate professor and senior director for drug discovery at Scripps Florida, will lead the project as principal investigator. LoGrasso, who joined Scripps Florida in 2005, previously held positions at Merck and the NIH.

For almost 30 years - since the world's first "test-tube" baby was born in July 1978 - the benefits of modern infertility treatments have been largely confined to couples in developed countries. There, we have seen more than 3 million

Each year, Karolinska Institutet's Board of Research confers the title honorary doctor to persons who by their actions in different ways have promoted activities carried out at the university. This year three honorary doctorates in medicine are to be conferred.

Fifty years have passed since the United States Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Army invented DEET to protect soldiers from disease-transmitting insects (and, in the process, made camping trips and barbecues more pleasant for the rest of us civilians).

As reported in previous updates, Baxter's sophisticated analytical procedures, including capillary electrophoresis and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, identified an unknown material in some lots of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) for heparin, which is supplied to Baxter by Scientific Protein

Springer and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) will launch a new international journal called Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) in March 2008. Springer is already the publisher of the BMES journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering.

Afterschool programs can modestly increase the amount of physical activity among girls in middle school, according to new results from the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG), a multiple site, community based study supported by the National Heart, Lung,

Allergy and asthma specialists to begin implementing The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma.

A discoverysuggests a safer way to treat medulloblastoma, a rare but often fatal childhood brain tumor.

A Miami facial plastic surgeon is giving hope to patients suffering from disfiguring acne scarring with new laser technology.

The percentage of US adults aged 50 years and older getting screened for colorectal cancer is increasing.

Women often believe they will not need pain relief during childbirth.

A cancer drug commonly used to treat leukemia, will treat the skin thickness in scleroderma patients by blocking the pathway that causes fibrosis.

To be well-rested is a feat easier said than done for approximately 40 million adults who suffer from chronic sleep disorders and an additional 30 million troubled by intermittent sleep-related conditions.

Data on sexually transmitted diseases shows the failure of so-called "comprehensive" or contraceptive- and condom-based sex education.

Sedentary, overweight or obese women can improve their quality of life by exercising as little as 10 to 30 minutes a day.

An innovative research approach has identified a previously unsuspected protein as a key player in the resistance to particular forms of breast cancer therapy. The study, published by Cell Press in the February issue of Cancer Cell, significantly advances the

LYON, France -- EDAP TMS SA, the global leader in therapeutic ultrasound, announced today that Ablatherm(r)-HIFU was featured in presentations at three major U.S. medical conferences. Each lecture underscored Ablatherm-HIFU's unique clinical superiority in terms of efficacy, safety, and long-term

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center have discovered a chemical reaction they believe to be the first step in the development of breast and prostate cancer. By keeping the reaction from taking place, researchers think